Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire.

Bohemia – located in the heart of Europe, the region is rich in culture, silver, and sprawling castles. The death of its beloved ruler, Emperor Charles IV, has plunged the kingdom into dark times: war, corruption, and discord are tearing this jewel of the Holy Roman Empire apart.

One of Charles' sons, Wenceslas, has inherited the crown. Unlike his father, Wenceslas is a naive, self-indulgent, unambitious monarch. His half-brother and King of Hungary, Sigismund the Red Fox, senses weakness in Wenceslas. Feigning good will, Sigismund travels to Bohemia and kidnaps his half-brother. With no king on the throne, Sigismund is now free to plunder Bohemia and seize its riches.

In the midst of this chaos, you're Henry, the son of a blacksmith. Your peaceful life is shattered when a mercenary raid, ordered by King Sigismund himself, burns your village to the ground. By bittersweet fortune, you are one of the few survivors of this massacre.

Without a home, family, or future you end up in the service of Lord Radzig Kobyla, who is forming a resistance against the invasion. Fate drags you into this bloody conflict and shoves you into a raging civil war, where you help f!ght for the future of Bohemia.

The year is 1403, the region Bohemia, located in the heart of Europe, rich in culture, silver and sprawling castles. The game is based on a true story – a story of kings, heirs, a kingdom, castle sieges and bloody battles.

The King is dead and his eldest son Wenceslas IV becomes the new King of Bohemia.

Wenceslas’s enraged half-brother Sigismund imprisons Wenceslas and invades the country with his mighty army. Unfortunately, in the midst of this chaos, your character Henry suffers. The mercenary army destroys your home and k!lls your family, you are the sole survivor of the bloodbath and it is here that your road to redemption starts. Enjoy the detailed reconstruction of the 15th century landscape. Use weapons that were used by knights. Take part in epic historical battles that happened in Middle Europe and in castle sieges!

Gameplay

Start your adventure as the humble son of a blacksmith, who alone has survived the wrath of the mercenary army that mercilessly destroyed your home and murdered your family. With your life turned upside down, you swear to avenge your family.

Prepare yourself for an epic journey through the reconstructed historical landscape of medieval Bohemia.

At your disposal is a diverse world full of endless options: use your reputation and charisma to investigate crimes and influence the inhabitants of the region to guide you on your quests. Overcome obstacles in multiple ways, either with diplomatic skills or with brute force. Use various weapons, craft supplies, take part in historical battles, participate in castle sieges or master sword-f!ghting. The path that awaits you is full of tough decisions, dirty quests, unexpected storyline twists, bloody conflicts and much more!

Try and redeem your failures and emerge a hero!

AI

Welcome to the living world of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a world that dynamically responds to your actions. Whatever you do can affect the reality of the world. Everything within the game organically reacts to your deeds. NPCs will report your crimes to the authorities, crimes committed will affect economics and NPC behavior.

Your reputation is essential: your behavior will attract individual inhabitants. If you are merciless, dangerous characters will take your side. Making allies isn’t easy, you must focus on the conversations you have with other characters, choose the right answers and maintain good relationships.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a deep, believable, realistic story and an exceptional level of graphic detail with a dynamic AI system, a functional day and night cycle and varying weather patterns that bring the world of the 15th century to life!

Your actions and reputation will spread by word of mouth: it is very important to watch what you do and say.

Combat

Experience our unique combat system which is new and exclusive to the gaming market. We present real historical European sword-f!ghting. We have been working with experienced swordf!ghters, who helped us with the animations in our MoCap Studio. Together we have decoded the medieval sword-f!ghting techniques that can be mastered in-game.

You need time to understand and learn the patterns; you can’t rush into battle and win so easily! You can specialize in different f!ghting styles and choose various weapons: swords, axes, maces and many more! Before entering f!ghts, don’t forget to armor yourself with the proper kit.

Mistakes are deadly!

Technology

To power our game, we use CryEngine, a powerful toolset which runs on all major gaming platforms. CryEngine affords us unparalleled macro and micro details, HD textures on all objects and a functional day/night cycle.

To deliver the most realistic animations we have built a motion capture studio, where professional actors help us deliver the best results on gaming screens. We use facial scans of the actors, providing the most realistic facial expressions and animations of swordf!ghts.

We have also built an unique game design software, SKALD, which is used by our game designers and writers. Through this software the communication and production of Kingdom Come: Deliverance is easier and more progressive!

RPG

Enter an open world RPG where we give you freedom of choice.

You play as Henry, a blacksmith’s son, and enter into the service of a noble who a.ssigns you engaging tasks and quests. How you choose to shape your character depends entirely on you. You can be violent, use weapons or use your charisma and avoid conflict. Keep in mind, whatever you choose to do, that you will face the consequences, as there are multiple ways to solve the quests.

Enjoy the huge, reconstructed map of medieval south Bohemia: enter villages, engage in interactions with NPCs and participate in castle sieges and large, historically accurate battles! Beware of deep forests, as you can actually get lost in them!

Choose how you want to be known: you can be merciful, pardon someone or surrender in battle, or you can be feared and threaten other inhabitants. No matter what you do, the world will give you an appropriate, reasonable response to your actions!

A Game of Thrones total conversion mod for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is in the works

Historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance isn't out for another ten days but modders are already working on a Game of Thrones total conversion mod. The mod, called Seven Kingdoms, will feature a role-playing story set in the Riverlands during the War of the Five Kings, and it's from the same team that created the Game of Thrones conversion mod for Total War: Attila.

The modders are halting all work on the Attila Seven Kingdoms mod and focusing their efforts on Kingdom Come: Deliverance because the RPG is better suited for the project, they said. "While we were able to bring the main armies and characters from Game of Thrones into Attila: Total War, it offered very little modding support and potential for new features. For example, a campaign set in Westeros could not be created," they said in an FAQ.

"Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a brand new game utilizing the powerful CryEngine. This means it's easier to create quality a.ssets and to render them with next-gen shaders. The open-world and story-driven aspects of the game are better suited to the Game of Thrones universe, giving us much more potential for new features and gameplay modes. Most importantly, Warhorse Studios stands behind the modding community and has been very vocal about supporting mods."

The full game comes out on February 13, but the team have already started creating 3D a.ssets for the mod, including weapons and armour. The mod will be "loyal to the TV show", rather than the Game of Thrones books, and the team haven't decided which characters will make it in yet, but the Riverlands setting gives them lots of options.

"This location was selected because it closely resembles the visuals of the KC:D game (trees, buildings, etc) and is best suited to the original game's storyline. Dozens of armies were present in this hotly contested area (Stark, Lannister, Tully, Bracken, Karstark, etc) along with gangs of bandits and freeriders roaming the countryside. With two warring sides, dangerous no-man's-land, and civilians caught in the middle between it all, it's a content-rich environment and the ideal location for an open-world mod."

The team has no release date planned for the mod, but you can read more about the project on its ModDB page.

Kingdom Come encourages you not to with an achievement for staying a virgin

The game’s list of trophies for PlayStation 4 recently went live, and among the awards is “Virgin,” which requires you to “Stay celibate and complete the entire game as a virgin.” You may joke that this is the easiest achievement ever, but if the game’s anything like many recent big RPGs, it’ll be tough to walk through a town without tripping into an open brothel.

Steam achievements are listed among the game’s features on Valve’s storefront, so presumably you’ll be duly rewarded for abstinence on PC as well. Lest you think Kingdom Come is getting too stodgy, achievements like “McLovin” and “Casanova” reward you for completing romance stories, and one called “Bad Trip” suggests you “Dance with the Devil.” Yikes.

Action role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance release date is February 13, but that hasn’t stopped game stores in the UAE from breaking street date and subsequently re-exporting copies of the game to countries like India. Gadgets 360 got its hands on the game for the PS4. Like most modern day video games, we were treated to a day one patch. And this one is on the bigger side, clocking in at 23GB. Well, 23.07GB to be exact. This takes the total file size of the game upto around 46GB.

Aside from updating the game to version 1.01 it comes with a host of improvements. These include better dialogue animations, an improved persuasion user interface, combat fixes as well as tweaks to sound. We played a bit of the game on a PS4 Pro before updating and after updating. Without spoiling much, the differences are palpable, making this update crucial. Still we can't help but feel that it will be taxing for those with lower bandwidth caps.

Nonetheless, the game's developer Warhorse Studios has issued a statement explaining why the game's file size is bigger than you'd expect it to be.

“Four years after our Kickstarter campaign, our game is set to be released tomorrow. The task was really big and our team although still quite small and we always wanted to deliver, to create the game we wanted and we believed you wanted. Before talking about some background, all of us at Warhorse would like to thank our community, the backers and friends who helped us to bring this dream to life by giving us the chance to develop what we believe is a unique RPG experience!," claims Martin Klima, Executive Producer at Warhorse.

"The production realities of game development mean that a ‘release’ version has to be finalized some time before the actual release date. We could have used this time to get some rest, or we could use it to create some additional content and sell it to you as DLC, but we went back to the version-to-be-released and worked on it. The results are obvious: quests are more balanced, RPG progression is smoother, the game runs faster and every facet of the game got more polish. The drawback of course is that most of the data in the old build was replaced and has to be downloaded as a patch. At a hefty size, it’s going to take some time to download and it’s a shame. Still, we strongly believe that after four years wait it will pay off to wait a little bit longer while the day one patch is downloading. Trust me, it will deliver the awesome experience you deserve!”

Furthermore, Senior Manager for Marketing and PR at the game's publisher, Deep Silver Will Powers took to popular gaming forum ResetEra to explain the nuances related to Kingdom Come: Deliverance's update size.

"So, let me stop the rumor mill dead in its tracks before everyone continues jumping to conclusions. The way that I've been told that the engine works, is it takes the entire game and separates the PKG or ISO into 2GB archives. If during a patch you so much as alter a 1KB text file within any of these 2GB archives, then you need to reupload the entire 2GB portion. That beings said, this is a major patch that improves overarching mechanics throughout the game, so it touches almost all of these 2GB archives in the entire game build. Essentially you are having to redownload the game to replace the existing files. It shouldn't stack them and inflate on your harddrive, but rather replace the previously downloaded build files," Powers' post reads.

In a later post he clarified that the file size remains the same for those buying it digitally with those buying the game on disc stuck with a larger file size.

"With disc versions, it can't replace the files from the disc. It does replace with digital downloads though," said Powers.

For the uninitiated Kingdom Come: Deliverance offers a highly detailed and period accurate set pieces including real-world locations and castles, and spins a story that’s ripe with the right amount of facts and fiction. Even the combat style and soundtrack used in the game are real representations of the 15th century European setting that the game is based in. Check out our full Kingdom Come: Deliverance review some time next week.